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The price of free speech Andrew Kelly on organising an event where the speaker says something racist
THE LOWDOWN
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Snapshot: Giambattista Vico The lowdown on the Neapolitan great
Pop culture Briony Addey gets Lost
REVIEW
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New books Reviews of a new biography of JS Mill, plus books by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Bernard Williams and Slavoj Zizek
Author Q&A Richard Shusterman on France coming first
Review of reviews What the critics said about The Death of Socrates and A Secular Age
LAST WORDS
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My philosophy Physicist Alan Sokal on academic trespass
The Skeptic Wendy Grossman’s regular column
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